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As someone who wasn't around for #13Magnus   I was surprised to see a familiar-looking symbol as I read through the Niantic Project Files, Vol. 2. This is probably something fairly obvious to long time players, but I haven't seen anyone point it out yet. Is this simply the shape that these resurrection/simulacrum creation chambers must take at Magnus and Anti-Magnus nests, or is there more of a connection here? With the recovered intel indicating that Obsidius was searching for "Magnus" and the tie between this #Obsidian image, it seems like Obsidian might be sort of a "13Magnus Redux," if you will--a revisiting of the origins of the group and the establishment of their opposition to the N'Zeer, something that ultimately led Obsidius to create his Obsidian Shield which the two factions shall soon be fighting over.

Greetings all. I only discovered this community a few weeks ago after working through the vast backlog of Ingress-related videos and documents. One of the things that led me here was trying to learn about the N'Zeer, since their importance is growing every day, and if Abaddon continues in the direction it's heading, now may be the critical time to do so. However, I've been shocked at just how little is known about them. Much of the speculation, here and elsewhere, seems to think of the N'Zeer as another "faction" of the same species or civilization as the Shapers. But I'd like to propose an alternate theory--that the N'Zeer are related to the Shapers, but as their creation. They don't just differ in their willingness to use AI, but rather the N'Zeer ARE AI. The Shapers and Shaper-aligned forces, such as the Society for the Ethical Treatment of AIs, are very much against the creation and proliferation of Artificial Intelligences. Could this be b...